The first articles in this volume focus on sources for the history of Baltic commerce and the evaluation of their data on prices. In most cases, though, surviving data is hardly adequate for any extensive quantitative analysis of Polish economic history, and many of these articles endeavour in different ways to use comparitive approaches to help overcome this lack of substantial statistical base - hence the set of studies on the economy of travelling and the observations of travellers. Professor MaAzak then turns to the structures of power in Poland and elsewhere in late renaissance Europe, looking in particular at informal power relationships and patterns of patronage. In terms of the Polish-Lithunaian state, he would hold that centralized government was already critically weakened in the late 15th century, and the 16th century saw the creation of a new power structure, based on local self-government, and dominated by the nobility.
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780860784784
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94609474
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Author
Antoni Maczak
Publication Name
Money, Prices and Power in Poland, 16th-17th Centuries: a Comparative Approach
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Economics, History
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
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Item Weight
454g
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Antoni Maczak
Series Title
Variorum Collected Studies
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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